All 20 Uses of
mortal
in
The Scarlet Letter
- And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthly substance with the soil, until no small portion of it must necessarily be akin to the mortal frame wherewith, for a little while, I walk the streets.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)mortal = human
- His position is then one of the most singularly irksome, and, in every contingency, disagreeable, that a wretched mortal can possibly occupy; with seldom an alternative of good on either hand, although what presents itself to him as the worst event may very probably be the best.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)mortal = person
- She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt; no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or, should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)mortal = human
- Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Be it accepted as a proof that all was not corrupt in this poor victim of her own frailty, and man's hard law, that Hester Prynne yet struggled to believe that no fellow-mortal was guilty like herself.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonoured bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven!
Chpt 6 (definition 1)mortals = human beings
- God gave her the child, and gave her, too, an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements—both seemingly so peculiar—which no other mortal being can possess.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)mortal = human
- Meanwhile, nevertheless, it was sad to think of the perchance mortal agony through which he must struggle towards his triumph.
Chpt 9 (definition 2) *mortal = extreme
- Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
Chpt 11 (definition 1)mortal = human
- Never did mortal suffer what this man has suffered.
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment.
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- And be the stern and sad truth spoken, that the breach which guilt has once made into the human soul is never, in this mortal state, repaired.
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- The dell was to be left in solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- And his encounter with old Mistress Hibbins, if it were a real incident, did but show its sympathy and fellowship with wicked mortals, and the world of perverted spirits.
Chpt 20 (definition 1)mortals = humans
- ...what mortal imagination could conceive it?
Chpt 22 (definition 1) *mortal = merely human
- According to their united testimony, never had man spoken in so wise, so high, and so holy a spirit, as he that spake this day; nor had inspiration ever breathed through mortal lips more evidently than it did through his.
Chpt 23 (definition 1)mortal = human
- Never, on New England soil had stood the man so honoured by his mortal brethren as the preacher!
Chpt 23 (definition 1)
- All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force—seemed at once to desert him, insomuch that he positively withered up, shrivelled away and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- This unhappy man had made the very principle of his life to consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge; and when, by its completest triumph consummation that evil principle was left with no further material to support it—when, in short, there was no more Devil's work on earth for him to do, it only remained for the unhumanised mortal to betake himself whither his master would find him tasks enough, and pay him his wages duly.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)mortal = person
Definitions:
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(1) (mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2) (mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense